Historical Fiction audiobooks

Scissors

By: Stéphane Michaka

Narrated by: various narrators, Lloyd James, Kathe Mazur, Sc...

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the life of the great short-story writer Raymond Carver, particularly his last ten, postalcoholic years, Scissors is that rare thing: a funny, compassionate, and convincing portrayal of the creative life—its compulsions, its rewards, its frustrations, its affinities with tragedy.Raymond is a writer whose life is fraught with personal... Read more

Intimate Surrender

By: Laura Landon

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The bewitchingly beautiful Hannah Bartlett never meant to fall in love, and certainly not with a vicar. But when she meets Vicar Rafe Waterford, she discovers a warmth and tenderness she’s searched for her entire life. Not until it’s too late does she realize that Rafe holds more than the key to her heart; he possesses the power to destroy... Read more

The Stolen Crown

By: Susan Higginbotham

Narrated by: Alison Larkin & John Lee

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Woodville's sister never gave her a choice. A happy girl of modest means, Kate hardly expected to become a maker of kings. But when her sister impulsively marries King Edward IV in secret, Katherine's life is no longer hers to control . . . Read more

The Long Hunt

By: Cameron Judd

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

When Deborah Bledsoe's father hears that his daughter may still be alive after being abducted by Cherokee raiders, he hires Crawford Flynn to find her, not knowing that Flynn's tracking skills have been exaggerated. The better bet is Flynn's son Simeon, who actually has the ability to track Deborah through the wilds of the vast, untamed West... Read more

Incident at Gunn Point

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Horse trader Will Summers wasn' t looking to be anybody' s hero, let alone stop a bank robbery led by the son of Gunn Point' s most powerful man. He' d rather hit the trail than try to take on the rest of the robbers, who are hell-bent on skinning his hide. But when the local sheriff is injured and his deputy outmatched, Will knows that things... Read more

The Rathbones

By: Janice Clark

Narrated by: Erin Spencer, Cassandra Campbell, Malcolm Campb...

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A gothic, literary adventure set in New England, Janice Clark's haunting debut chronicles one hundred years of a once prosperous and now crumbling whaling family, told by its last surviving member.

Mercy Rathbone, fifteen years old, is the diminutive scion of the Rathbone clan. Her father, the last in the beleaguered dynasty, has been lost at sea... Read more

Snow Hunters

By: Paul Yoon

Narrated by: Paul Yoon

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award, Snow Hunters is “a subtle, elegant, poignant read” (Oprah.com), featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor’s apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past.

“Exquisitely enigmatic…a small but radiant star in the current literary firmament” (The Dallas Morning News), Snow... Read more

Under a Texas Sky

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until a talent manager discovers her and brings her into the world of theater. Now years later she's about to start shooting her first movie. Arriving on location in Redstone, Texas, in 1932, Anna steps off the train and collides... Read more

The Crooked Maid

By: Dan Vyleta

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Graham Greene meets Dostoevsky in a thrilling and atmospheric story of guilt and restitution set in postwar Vienna.Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amid the rubble.Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after... Read more

The Crown Tower

By: Michael J. Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Two men who hate each other. One impossible mission. A legend in the making.

Hadrian Blackwater, a warrior with nothing to fight for, is paired with Royce Melborn, a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Hired by an old wizard, they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress... Read more

Firebrand

By: Elizabeth Fremantle

Narrated by: Georgina Sutton

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the major motion picture Firebrand—which reveals the tumultuous darker side to the marriages of the notorious King of England, Henry VIII, and the wife who survived.

“Smart, sensual, and suspenseful as a thriller, this is a must-read for Philippa Gregory fans.” —People

Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr... Read more

Love and Lament

By: John Milliken Thompson

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and World War I, Love and Lament chronicles the Hartsoe family's ex­traordinary hardships and misfortunes.Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year the first railroad arrived in their county. As she comes of age during the South's reconstruction and industrialization, she... Read more

The Passion of the Purple Plumeria

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED!

Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation novels have been hailed as “sheer fun”* and “charming.”** Now she takes readers on an adventure filled with hidden treasure and a devilishly handsome English colonel....

Colonel William Reid has returned home from India to retire near his children, who are safely stowed at an academy in Bath.... Read more

The Serpent and the Pearl

By: Kate Quinn

Narrated by: Leila Birch, Maria Elena Infantino & Ronan Vibert

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

One powerful family holds a city, a faith, and a woman in its grasp—from the national bestselling author of Daughters of Rome and Mistress of Rome.

Rome, 1492. The Holy City is drenched with blood and teeming with secrets. A pope lies dying and the throne of God is left vacant, a prize awarded only to the most virtuous—or the most ruthless. The... Read more

Spring Awakening

By: T. J. Brown

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The laughter of summer lawn parties fades for the men and women of Summerset Abbey, as the rumble of cannon-fire sweeps across Europe. In a changing world, they soon find that only one thing is certain: none of them will ever be the same.Rowena BuxtonThe female pilot’s upcoming wedding to Sebastian Billingsly is the talk of society. Rowena loves... Read more

Highlander Betrayed

By: Laurin Wittig

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden deep in the rugged Scottish Highlands lies the Highland Targe, an ancient relic guarded for centuries by clan MacAlpin. It is said the Targe can shield the heart of the Highlands from invaders and now, as part of his plan to crush the Scottish rebellion, the English king wants the Targe for himself…Rowan MacGregor, orphaned niece to the... Read more

Temptation in a Kilt

By: Victoria Roberts

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a sign of Lady Rosalia Armstrong's desperation that she's seeking refuge in a place as rugged and challenging as the Scottish Highlands. She doesn't care about hardship and discomfort, if only she can become master of her own life. Laird Ciaran MacGregor, however, is completely beyond her control . . .



Ciaran MacGregor knows it's perilous... Read more

The Warrior

By: Margaret Mallory

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Isle of Skye to the battlefields of France, Duncan MacDonald has never escaped the memory of the true love he left behind. Deemed unworthy of a chieftain's daughter, Duncan abandoned the lovely Moira to prove his worth in battle. Now, when called upon to rescue her from a rival clan, one thing is certain: Moira's pull on his heart is... Read more

Innocent Courtesan to Adventurer's Bride

By: Louise Allen

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

OUT OF THE BROTHEL Wrongly accused of theft, innocent Celina Shelley is cast out of the brothel she calls home and flees to Quinn Ashley, Lord Dreycott, for safety. But the heat in the daredevil adventurer's eyes tells Lina that the danger is just beginning.... AND INTO THE RAKE'S BEDROOM! Lina dresses like a nun, looks like an angel, but flirts... Read more

Lady Folbroke's Delicious Deception

By: Christine Merrill

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Longesley married the love of her life and hoped that he would learn to love her. Instead, he upped and left their country estate for London. Suffering the snub with dignity, three years on Emily has had enough! Confronting her errant husband, Emily sees that Adrian, Earl of Folbroke, has been robbed of his sight and doesn't know her at... Read more

Dark Road Home

By: Elizabeth Ludwig

Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The nightmares of her past have found Ana Kavanagh an ocean away.

Ana Kavanagh's memories of Ireland are mostly of fire and pain.

As a girl she survived a blaze that left her an orphan, left her scarred, and left her angry at God. Now in New York, Ana finds a kindred spirit in Eoghan Hamilton, who's struggling with his own anger. His twin... Read more

Instrument of Slaughter - The Home Front Detective, book 2 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

January 1916. Britain is on the brink of enforcing conscription. Eligible young men who have not yet signed up to fight are despised as 'conchies' and 'shirkers', subjected to hatred and verbal abuse. Cyril Ablatt, leader of Shoreditch's group of conscientious objectors, makes a rousing speech at a meeting of the No-Conscription Fellowship,... Read more

The Original Miss Honeyford

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Honeyford was sour on romance, but she had been duly dispatched to London to save the family fortune by hunting for—and securing—a wealthy husband and thereby proving her role as a loving, if not entirely dutiful, daughter. Honoraria obeyed. But if she was reluctantly willing to surrender her hand, this beautiful young lady who could ride,... Read more

The Education of Miss Patterson

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

For lovely young Miss Patricia Patterson, life seemed a delightful dream—until the specter of her guardian, Lord Charles Gaunt, cast a shadow over her carefree days of idleness and enchanting evenings of dazzling balls and delicious flirtations.Lord Charles demanded that she act the part of a proper—and perfectly boring—young miss. Even worse,... Read more